It is a user-friendly full-screen editor for interactive applications and a powerful file editor for processing bulk data in batch mode. It thus fulfils practically all the requirements made of a modern file editor.

EDT supports the PLAM access method. PLAM (Program Library Access Method) enables EDT to process library elements. Moreover, users who do not wish to utilize the full functionality of LMS can also process their programs in PLAM libraries.

Support of UNICODE: This includes amongst others the possibility to handle differentially coded files in miscellaneous working files of EDT at the same time as well as the abolition of the limitation of record length (up to now 256 character).